Words of Wisdom .. Words for Thought .. and Just Words

Every Dream Is A Prophecy

We’re back to the same lies that got us into Iraq.
Do we never learn to question the propaganda ?( Ron Paul )

You might be an economic illiterate if you think roads created business success and not the other way round.( Ron Paul )

Why do I find it so annoying to be told cuts in the public services we rely on are essential… By people with tennis courts, swimming pools, nannies, private health insurance and offshore bank accounts !( R.S. Hutchison, April 2010 )

Wouldn’t it be great if we could inflict Conservative policies only on people who voted Conservative.

If you want others to be happy, practise compassion.
If you want to be happy, practise compassion.( Dalai Lama )

Be brave .. Even if you’re not, pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one.( Edward Paul Abbey )

Beautiful faces are everywhere..
But beautiful minds are hard to find.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.( Mark Twain )

It’s a man’s job to respect a woman.
It is a woman’s job to give him something to respect.

The environment should be put in the category of our National Security.
Defence of our resources is just as important as defence abroad.
Otherwise, what is there to defend ?( Robert Redford )

I’m not anti-social, I’m selectively social.
There’s a difference.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.( Edward Paul Abbey )

A religion will hide the truth if the truth would destroy their religion.
Science will hide the truth if the truth would destroy their theory.

Why is it that countries which we call ‘strong’ are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace ?
Why is that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard ?.. We have already taken many steps in the right direction.. Now is the time to take a leap.( Malala Yousafzai )

When talking to a stupid person, it’s a good idea to pretend you are not stupid.

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalised version of the first.( Thomas Jefferson )

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.( George Bernard Shaw )

There are moments in life when you wish you could bring someone down from Heaven.. Just to give them one more hug, a kiss, and to hear their voice.

He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything.
That points clearly to a political career.( George Bernard Shaw )

Our governments are full of career politicians, interested only in themselves, not caring a damn about the welfare of the people.

When the rich rob the poor it’s called business.
When the poor fight back it’s called violence.( Mark Twain )

I think I need to see somebody who knows about mad people to tell me that I’m not one of them.

Patriotism is a conviction that your country is better because you were born in it.( George Bernard Shaw )

Men were given strength by God to protect women.
So, if you are a man and you hurt a woman..
You have no right to call yourself a man.. An asshole, perhaps.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.( George Bernard Shaw )

Just because something has been done for years, it doesn’t make it right.

All your memories are behind you.
All your dreams are before you.
All those you love are around you.
All that you need is within you.( Florence Emily Hookins )

April Fool’s Day ..
A day when people pause to think if what they read or see on the internet is true or not.. A skill sorely lacking during the rest of the year.

My way of joking is to tell the truth.
It’s the funniest joke in the world.( George Bernard Shaw )

All great truths begin as blasphemies.( George Bernard Shaw )

Every dream is a prophecy.
Every jest is an earnest in the womb of time.( George Bernard Shaw )

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past let us accept our own responsibility for the future.( John F. Kennedy )

I will never understand how politicians who call themselves Christian can read the Gospels and then treat the poor and the sick like dirt.( James Martin )

We’ve become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy.( Jimmy Carter )

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.( Theodore Roosevelt )

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.( Ephesians, 6:12, King James version )

Society is like a stew.. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.( Edward Paul Abbey )

In 2012, research in New Zealand found an irreversible reduction in intelligence is just one cost of smoking cannabis from your early teens.

Religions, invented by man, have increasingly become a corrupt mechanism of manipulating large chunks of the population and attacking humane thought.( R.S. Hutchison, November, 2015 )

The Earth will continue to cleanse itself while material and negative things collapse and cease to be.( William Roache )